Modern, Post War & Contemporary, Evening Sale
| Auction | 27.11.2024
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Lot 650 | William Nelson Copley | Carte blanche
Estimate
20.000
- 30.000
€
D F
Result:
(incl. premium)
66.000 €
COPLEY, WILLIAM NELSON
1919 New York - 1996 Key West
Title: Carte blanche.
Date: 1955.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 54 x 65cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: CPLY 55. Titled on the stretcher: CARTE BLANCHE.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
Provenance:
- Collection Max Ernst (ca. 1955 directly from the artist)
- Collection Dorothea Tanning (since 1976 by inheritance)
- Since then in family ownership
We are grateful to Mr Anthony Atlas, William N. Copley Estate, New York, for the kind scientific support.
- Work with unusual dynamics through shifts in perspective
- From a series of car depictions created around 1955
- From the collection of Max Ernst and offered on the auction market for the first time
1919 New York - 1996 Key West
Title: Carte blanche.
Date: 1955.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 54 x 65cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: CPLY 55. Titled on the stretcher: CARTE BLANCHE.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
Provenance:
- Collection Max Ernst (ca. 1955 directly from the artist)
- Collection Dorothea Tanning (since 1976 by inheritance)
- Since then in family ownership
We are grateful to Mr Anthony Atlas, William N. Copley Estate, New York, for the kind scientific support.
- Work with unusual dynamics through shifts in perspective
- From a series of car depictions created around 1955
- From the collection of Max Ernst and offered on the auction market for the first time
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VAT margin scheme, VAT included, but must not be indicated, not refundable
32% buyer’s premium on the hammer price
32% buyer’s premium on the hammer price
Droit de suite
plus artist resale right fee of 1.5% on the hammer price up to € 200,000
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Stock Id: 77890-5